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My name is Inbal Becker Reshef,

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and I use cameras on satellites to see
what is growing on farms around the world.

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NASA Harvest is NASA's Applied Sciences
program on food security and agriculture.

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Our big mission is really to help inform
decisions on agricultural sustainability,

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on agricultural market stability, and
on food security overall.

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We all eat food. We all need to have food to live and to thrive.
And so, therefore, it's really important for us

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to have ways of monitoring the amount of food
that we're producing to be able to anticipate

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how much food we're going to produce,
where we're going to produce the food--

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or helping to inform farmers themselves who
are growing food how can they grow their food

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more effectively, more efficiently. So it really
matters, I think, from farmers to ministries to

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everybody we're talking about our food production.

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I think the biggest inspiration is really to see the impact of this work,

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and see how much more
potential there still is for better utilization

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of satellite information to inform really
important decisions

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around sustainability, around food security, around food prices.

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I grew
up moving almost every two years of my life.

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I lived across three different continents. I spent
probably a fairly formative part of my life living in Kenya as well.

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And I think one of the things
that helped me appreciate is how diverse our world is in terms of our environment.

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I always loved  science and math, but also

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had a passion for art, and so I always took classes in art. But, I took,
also, computer science, and I took

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math classes, and eventually decided not to go the art way and keep that as a hobby.

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They're always going to be challenges, and they come in small and big and every day.

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And I think part of it is just remembering again
what you're doing and why you're doing it.

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